Born in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Hastings Sr
and Elizabeth Sarah (Nevinson) Hastings
Sister of
Lydia Hastings [half], Samuel Hastings, Benjamin Hastings, Daniel Hastings [half], Benjamin Hastings [half] and Nathaniel Hastings I [half]
Wife of
James Henry Sr.
— married
12 Apr 1722 in Massachusetts
Descendants 
Died before
before age 53
in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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Biography
Elizabeth was baptized November 28 or 29, 1697 at Watertown, Massachusetts.[1][2][3] She was the daughter of Samuel Hastings and his second wife Elizabeth Nevinson.
Eldridge's Henry Genealogy (1913) identifies her as the Elizabeth who was the wife of James Henry.[4] No record of the marriage has been found, but her father's will calls her "Elizabeth Henrys."[5] She married James Henry after 1720 (the date of her grandmother Elizabeth [Nevinson] Bond's will which refers to her by her maiden name)[6] and before 12 April 1722 (the date of her father Samuel Hastings' will which refers to her as Elizabeth Henrys).[4] Ten children were born to the marriage.[7]
Elizabeth died before April 1751.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records, Watertown, page 131
- ↑ Bond, p. 286
- ↑ Eldridge gives her date of birth as March 8, 1693, but this seems unlikely. This date was after the death of her father's first wife and before his marriage to his second wife, and it would be unusual to wait so long to baptize a child. However, there may have some delay in baptizing Elizabeth; a note after her father's name in the baptismal record states "who own'd ye Covt. [Covenant]," which suggests that he had not previously been a member of the church.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eldridge, p. 6
- ↑ Will of Samuel Hastings (probate date 1723), Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
- ↑ Buckminster, p. 88
- ↑ Eldridge, pp. 9-11
- Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. 1860.
- Buckminster, Lydia Nelson Hastings. Hastings Memorial. Samuel G. Drake, 1866.
- Early Vital Records of Massachusetts, From 1600 to 1850
- Eldridge, William Henry Henry Genealogy: The Descendants of Samuel Henry of Hadley and Amherst, Mass.. Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, Boston, Massachusetts, 1915.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54052760/elizabeth-henry: accessed 27 February 2023), memorial page for Elizabeth Hastings Henry (1697–1751), Find a Grave Memorial ID 54052760, citing Evergreen Cemetery, South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by John Parker (contributor 47270483).
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Jim Hastings for creating WikiTree profile Hastings-947 through the import of Jim's Wikitree Gedcom 5-21-2013.GED on May 21, 2013.
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I have Elizabeth Hastings as an ancestor, married to James Henry and the mother of 10 children, including Sanuel Henry. Thus, it bothers me that this profile has her dying as a small child. Several sources (none of them primary sources) give November 29, 1697 as the date of her baptism, not of her death. Since Elizabeth Nevinson married Samuel Hastings in 1694, the 1693 birthdate does not accord with the listed parentage -- she probably was born later.